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Nelson Mandela - Former President of South Africa | Mini Bio | Biography

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Mandela was brought into the world in 18th July 1918 in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's professions was an actor, statesman, peace activist, lawyer, writer, social activist and a philanthropist. He spent 27 years of his life in prison. Throughout those many years locked up he was trying to remove the power out from the pro-apartheid government. While in prison he read smuggled books as much as possible, he was a leaner, he was a fighter and wanted to improve what he might lose while locked up. In 1990 Mandela was released from prison and started taking his right of action to improve the life of others. Once Nelson Mandela reached the older years of his life, he was still participating in his community and country as an open-minded citizen.
After his journey and battle with rights throughout South Africa he ended in winning a Nobel Prize in 1993.

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Mandelas worldview that he had to deal with was no-one getting the correct treatment, favourite races and to him it was not the worldview and the world he wanted to keep living in and experiencing. Once he took his actions towards the problems he saw in South Africa, his worldview would have change immensely.
Once he retired he was still giving inspirational talks and impacting the lives of others until he died at the age of 95 in 2013.
In any interview that Nelson Mandela has been apart of, his religion has never been a topic and he does not want to acknowledge it. He refrains from talking about it and keeps that small chunk of his life private. Many have agreed that he is in fact Christian while majority believe he was a methodist.

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Whoever attended Mandelas speeches or got one on one time with him would know what an inspiring person he actually was. He impacted every person who knew him, wether it was someone from South Africa to Australia or to someone at an interview.
The now well known people have been influenced by the great work done by Nelson Mandela.
-Mahatma Gandhi
-Walter Sisulu
-Albert Lutuli
Along his long journey to reach the elimination of Apartheid he may have offended people. With all his love and passion he may have taken a wrong turn at one point. The government took offence to his violent attempt to overthrow the state although in his mind it was just his attempt to change things for the better.

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When conducting my research about Nelson Mandela, something that I found the most interesting was how focused and driven he was to change something so important to him, his country, South Africa. I have never heard of anyone, or seen anyone, so determined to change something and something so important. Even after 27 years he was still the same mentally about how he wants his country to turn out for its future.
Even his quotes are written to thoughtfully and he is still though about to this day. Mandela is still remembered for his hard work towards such a big goal.

'It always seems impossible until it's done.'

'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.'

'For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.'

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Enjoy the best Nelson Mandela Quotes at BrainyQuote. Quotations by Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman, Born July 18, 1918. Share with your friends.

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'Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered statesmen, who led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy.' said BBC News.

Many years of his life, his whole life in fact he stood up for the rights of all beings in South Africa, his home country.
Mandela sacrificed his own life and freedom so therefore others can have freedom. He is looked back on being a big icon to each person and each country by standing against people who discriminate those of a different race. He wanted to change that fact as he lead the country in a fight for all human rights that spread across the world.

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Mandela has always knows of the pro-apartheid and begun trying to threaten to overthrow the state. That then landed him in prison. He knew what personal risks he had to take to inform his country about something to powerful, close-minded and so wrong. He had a sentence of 27 years from trying to change something he was so passionate about and it continuously got turned down.
He put his own life at risk, to be thrown in prison. Mandela acted by what was correct in his mind and that never risked anyone life but his own. As he made his way out of prison that is when he changed the lives of people.
"Until I changed myself, I could not change others".

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In the era of the 1900's many were fighting for the right towards race to therefore stop the discrimination between and amongst people, people in higher power especially included. Nelson being South African, could not only see but feel the pain of all the surrounding people who are dealing with something they shouldn't. The only world he knew was the one he lived in and with the imbalance of equality and his platform he had to challenge his world.
While Mandela was in prison, he was never though to make it out. He defiantly defied the odds and the close-minded power against him. After being released from his imprisonment he began discussing the end of the apartheid in South Africa. He began a providing peace to racially divided country and started leading all fights for human rights around the world. He included all people, all those who felt separated from the favoured race, he brang all people together to fight for the one thing that mattered.

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Nelson Mandela has always been the type of person to bring people together not to seperate them. He is open-minded and fights for the rights and changes he wants to see.
In 1994 Mandela became the first black president of South Africa. In his first year running as the president, he changes the nation by seeing the opportunity in sport to bring the country together.
'Sport's power to change lives and move nations is often overstated.' said BBC Sports News.
Nelson Mandela was the first leader that was global to use sport as an advantage to spark and unite people to form the country equally. Mandela contacted the South African cricket authorities and for them to free themselves from the apartheid and allow mixed races to join sporting teams.
This is evident of how Nelson will always put others first, he never had to negotiate with the cricket association but with his open-mind and his love for equality he had to make that leap towards his country's worldview.